Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Azure 110 27 34
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 10.93% 7.71% 7.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.50% 24.32% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 22 27
10th Percentile £394 £199 £185
25th Percentile £453 £427 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year - +18.34% -23.18%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £441
90th Percentile £678 £645 £535
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% -13.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 449 111 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.63% 31.71% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 88 74
10th Percentile £350 £185 £185
25th Percentile £413 £414 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £511 £430
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% +18.90% -21.82%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £542
90th Percentile £613 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £15.63
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile - - £20.13
90th Percentile - - £21.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
% change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -3 106 £500 - 24
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 5
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) nginx
3 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.91%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (62.73%) AWS
2 65 (59.09%) GCP
3 21 (19.09%) Entra ID
4 20 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 13 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.91%) GitHub
7 11 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 10 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (6.36%) SaaS
10 5 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (4.55%) OneDrive
11 4 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.64%) ChatGPT
11 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.64%) Serverless
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Storage
12 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.00%) Firewall
2 8 (7.27%) DNS
3 6 (5.45%) SAN
3 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.64%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.64%) VPN
5 2 (1.82%) HTTP
5 2 (1.82%) Network Security
5 2 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.82%) SSL
5 2 (1.82%) VSAN
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.91%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.91%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.91%) VLAN
6 1 (0.91%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.18%) Power BI
1 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.55%) MySQL
3 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.64%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.82%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.82%) DataStage
5 2 (1.82%) DB2
5 2 (1.82%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.82%) Metadata
5 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.91%) Big Data
6 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.91%) Parquet
6 1 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (26.36%) Jenkins
2 25 (22.73%) GitLab
3 24 (21.82%) JIRA
4 13 (11.82%) Selenium
5 12 (10.91%) Cucumber
5 12 (10.91%) REST Assured
6 11 (10.00%) Postman
7 8 (7.27%) Git
8 5 (4.55%) TestRail
9 4 (3.64%) Gatling
9 4 (3.64%) JMeter
9 4 (3.64%) LoadRunner
9 4 (3.64%) NeoLoad
10 3 (2.73%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.91%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.91%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.91%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Finance
3 23 (20.91%) Banking
4 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.55%) Law
5 5 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (18.18%) Lead
2 16 (14.55%) Architect
3 13 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (8.18%) Test Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Consultant
6 6 (5.45%) Developer
6 6 (5.45%) Test Leader
7 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Senior
7 5 (4.55%) Test Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) NetApp Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.64%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.73%) REST
2 22 (20.00%) LDAP
2 22 (20.00%) OpenID
3 16 (14.55%) SailPoint
4 7 (6.36%) Middleware
4 7 (6.36%) OAuth
5 6 (5.45%) .NET
5 6 (5.45%) SAML
6 5 (4.55%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.64%) JSON
7 4 (3.64%) Kafka
7 4 (3.64%) Playwright
8 3 (2.73%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.73%) RESTful
8 3 (2.73%) XML
9 2 (1.82%) JWT
9 2 (1.82%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.82%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.45%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.55%) FlexPod
7 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.64%) IoT
8 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.91%) RSA SecurID
10 1 (0.91%) Tandem
10 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.45%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.36%) VMS
3 7 (6.36%) Windows
4 5 (4.55%) CoreOS
4 5 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (3.64%) Unix
6 1 (0.91%) CentOS
6 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (51.82%) DevOps
2 52 (47.27%) CI/CD
3 26 (23.64%) Containerisation
4 23 (20.91%) Agile
5 21 (19.09%) Migration
5 21 (19.09%) Test Automation
6 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (17.27%) Identity Access Management
8 18 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (15.45%) ETL
10 16 (14.55%) Data Ingestion
10 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) API Testing
11 15 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (13.64%) Roadmaps
11 15 (13.64%) Test Strategy
12 14 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (11.82%) Analytics
13 13 (11.82%) Data Protection
13 13 (11.82%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.09%) Python
2 27 (24.55%) SQL
3 26 (23.64%) Java
4 14 (12.73%) Bash
5 12 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.55%) Go
7 5 (4.55%) Groovy
7 5 (4.55%) PHP
8 4 (3.64%) Cypher
8 4 (3.64%) Scala
8 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.73%) Bicep
9 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.91%) C#
10 1 (0.91%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (5.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.55%) OCP
2 5 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.64%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.82%) CISM
4 2 (1.82%) CISSP
4 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.91%) CCA
5 1 (0.91%) CCSK
5 1 (0.91%) CEH
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.91%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.91%) GIAC
5 1 (0.91%) GWAPT
5 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.91%) SAP Certification
5 1 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) SLA
3 3 (2.73%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.73%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.91%) GRC
5 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (15.45%) Docker
2 14 (12.73%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (10.91%) Active Directory
4 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.27%) vSphere
6 6 (5.45%) NFS
7 5 (4.55%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.82%) KVM
8 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.91%) Ceph
9 1 (0.91%) QEMU
9 1 (0.91%) XenApp
9 1 (0.91%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (33.64%) Kubernetes
2 28 (25.45%) Terraform
3 23 (20.91%) Ansible
4 9 (8.18%) Grafana
5 5 (4.55%) SnapMirror
6 4 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.82%) Argo
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.91%) Istio
8 1 (0.91%) Kibana
8 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.91%) logstash
8 1 (0.91%) Podman
8 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.91%) Puppet
8 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.18%) Google
2 20 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.09%) Oracle
3 10 (9.09%) VMware
4 8 (7.27%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.36%) NetApp
5 7 (6.36%) OpenAI
6 6 (5.45%) Splunk
7 4 (3.64%) Alibaba
7 4 (3.64%) Databricks
7 4 (3.64%) F5
8 3 (2.73%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.73%) Aruba
8 3 (2.73%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.82%) Cisco
9 2 (1.82%) Informatica
9 2 (1.82%) Okta
9 2 (1.82%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.91%) BiZZdesign